NEWEST RELIEVER GETS HARSH HELLO

Only the latest young pitcher to get the thrill of his major league debut due to the stupefying number of players placed on the disabled list by the Padres this young season, right-handed reliever Miles Mikolas also got much the same sort of big-league introduction as Joe Wieland, the pitcher who started Sunday’s game.

Home run.

Difference was, Joe Wieland gave his up to the third batter he ever faced (Matt Kemp) and the hitter right after that (Andre Ethier). Mikolas surrendered a homer Saturday night to his very first major league hitter, Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins.

“We talked a little bit after the game (Saturday’s),” said Mikolas, referring to Wieland. “He said it’s all easier from here on. Once you get the jitters out, get the butterflies out, you settle in and get back to baseball.”

Little more than 12 hours before he took the mound at Petco Park, Mikolas was a Double-A pitcher with San Antonio. By coincidence, he was summoned to pitch against the Marlins, who train in Mikolas’ hometown of Jupiter, Fla. The rookie immediately got his trial by fire in the ninth inning of a 3-1 game that became 4-1 on Stanton’s launch into the Western Metal Supply Co. building.

“It happens,” said Mikolas. “You’re gonna give ’em up, so you might as well get that out of the way so you don’t have that hanging over your head like, when’s it going to happen?”

A wry smile crossed manager Bud Black’s face.

“I’m not so sure about that,” he said. “Don’t you want to hold off on that one as long as possible? But I guess that’s one of those things where you turn a negative into a positive, right? That’s what he did. So now he can go on his way, go on a string of not giving up homers. I like that.

“I do like his strikeouts, though. Now if he can go on that kind of streak — two strikeouts every inning — that would be nice.”

Mikolas, who followed Stanton’s homer with a walk, indeed struck out two of the last three Marlins he faced.

DL a long, tough read

Yes, there is a list. Somewhere in the Padres’ training room, there is a disabled-list list.

“I don’t look at the list, because it’s sort of a bummer,” Black said. “It’s not a good thing to really look at. You know, I don’t buy Star magazine and I don’t buy National Enquirer. That’s not good reading to me. Sort of like the disabled-list list.”

The Padres’ list of injured, post-surgery and pre-surgery players is getting as long as something written by Tolstoy, and about as gruesome. Closer Huston Street became the 10th player since late March to go on the DL, with Mark Kotsay the only one who’s returned. Tim Stauffer, one of three projected starting pitchers on the DL, is the closest to returning as he makes minor league rehab starts.

For the record, the Padres aren’t the major league club with the most DL’s. That would be the Boston Red Sox (10), followed by the Padres (nine) and the Philadelphia Phillies (eight) and Washington Nationals (eight).